Imbalanced vs. Unbalanced — What's the Difference?

A lack of balance, as in distribution or functioning.

Not in balance or in proper balance.

Experiencing an imbalance; out of balance.

Not evenly or properly distributed

Being or thrown out of equilibrium

Showing or marked by erratic or volatile emotions or behavior.

(Accounting) Not satisfactorily adjusted so that debit and credit correspond.

Not treating all sides with due importance

Not balanced, without equilibrium; dizzy

Irrational or mentally deranged

(accounting) not adjusted such that debit and credit correspond

(computing) of an expression having different numbers of left and right parentheses

(American football) an offensive line with more players on one side of the center than on the other

Simple past tense and past participle of unbalance

Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise.

Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books.

Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind.

Being or thrown out of equilibrium

Affected with madness or insanity;

Debits and credits are not equal